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Islington 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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31 [1925
Poliomyelitis, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Cerebrospinal
fever or Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Dysentery, Glanders or
Farcy, Hydrophobia or Rabies, Malaria, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Plague, Trench
Fever, and Tuberculosis.
Acute Poliomyelitis. Only one case was notified during the year, as compared with 7 in 1924, and 1 case in 1923.
| 1925 | 1924 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 1st Quarter | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| 2nd „ | 1 | „ | „ | „ |
| 3rd „ | Nil | „ | 6 | 2 |
| 4th „ | „ | „ | 1 | Nil |
| 1 | Nil | 7 | 2 | |
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Six cases were notified, and they equalled the notifications of the previous
year. During the ten years 1915-24, the cases averaged 18 per annum.
A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement :
| 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | Average 10 yrs. 1915-24 | 1925 | Total Deaths, 1915-24. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | 12 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | — | 6 | 2 | 41 |
| 2nd | 13 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | 6 | 1 | 48 |
| 3rd | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 4th | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 |
| Year | 40 | 39 | 30 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 113 |
The deaths during the year numbered 3, and were equal to the very high rate
of .50 per cent, of the cases notified.
Public Health (Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.) Regulations, 1919.
During the past 6 years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health :
| 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malaria | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Nil |
| Dysentery | 4 | — | 1 | 3 | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 34 | 47 | 77 | 120 | 119 | 93 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 22 | 25 | 67 | 58 | 65 | 41 |
| Pneumonia | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 80 | 80 | 147 | 183 | 185 | 134 |